The vid/song IS a nice production.......and it will lend itself to editing, snippets for TV, for the different states, populations, and targeted voters. The Dem race is the most interesting of the two. The Rep race will be over much quicker and the legions will unite and begin their run for the national electorate. There are a lot of vested interests who are dependent on them, the Republicans, retaining the executive branch. Both sides are heavily influenced and controlled by the same, but corporate powers would prefer minimal change and more time to insure the solidification of the institutions currently in place....Pro profit, not pro people. Plunder and pillage is profit. Collateral damage is a cost of business absorbed by the people.

Heh. I was just coming over to tell you 'bout the video. Silly me, you would have already been on top of it!

thanks for thinking of informing me tho! that's cool, y me gusta.

peasant you make good points about both film and government.

god, man. it's wonderful and fucking terrifying. i love it.

right???

How sweet is the speech-writing, and the rhythm and intonation of its delivery, that it can so smoothly transfer into a pop song?! And a very inspired idea from will.i.am, too. I expect this thing to go viral, if it hasn't already.

i think it is...its a sweet, sweet piece of media and heart from speech to youtube, estoy de acuerdo...

i think of bob marley's War, the last time i remember a speech moving someone enough to do something like this.

I really like the video, but... it seems that is only "black" and "white." Maybe they should have filmed it in color so the brown people could be seen also.

overall, i think you make a good point bout the nation's discourse on race.

but in this video i see many people. the "si se puede" cat was latino, of course. dont need color to hear that. to mention only one. if you watch it through, you see a lot of different folks. (update: i've watched it again with this idea in mind, and i have to agree...it is mostly black and white from what i can tell. so i concede the point. the video, in that aspect, does sadly mirror the too-frequent "black/white" dichotomy underlying our discussions and perceptions of race in America)

It's not captioned. Boo.

ohhhh. damn. i hadnt even thought of that. are you deaf? i'm sorry if thats the wrong way to put it. hearing impaired? (correct me please)

that sucks that they didnt release one with captions!!! hell. maybe they will read this.

captions people!! ahora!

i'm so me-centric. i keep thinking everyone on this blog can do all the things i can. thanks for the reminder, brown-eyed girl.

I've found a transcript. but the initial impact remains, of course, and I can't see the "rhythm" (where the words go) with a transcript, of course.

As for your question, ha ha, that's one that hearies can't win, sort of like men and the "am i fat" question. If you're born deaf (or hard of hearing), you will usually call yourself deaf (or Deaf -- yet another discourse in of itself) or hard of hearing. If you lose your hearing later in life, you'll have an entirely different perspective much of the time and prefer the term hearing impaired.

And of course, depending on context, personal prefs, etc, this will vary beyond the above generalization.

I prefer deaf, having been born deaf but not raised Deaf (eg signing).

do you ever turn it up loud and put your head against the speaker? to see how the rhythm is going? i think i would try that if i were deaf.

i was raised for a time around and in the signing community. tho i have functional hearing by any account. they were part of the community i was part of, there was an overlap.

as with many areas, please forgive me if i say something unintentionally insulting. know that it would only be from ignorance, not malice. and i dont mind being taught.

I'm not going to blare something out on the computer (esp. at work!) to try and hear any of it. Anyway, technically while I suppose I could try that...it doesn't change the fact that it should be captioned anyway. That trick won't work for everyone.

yes i didnt mean now at work. i was just thinking of how i love to turn up music to feel it in my body. or when i play guitar, i love to feel the vibrations in my chest. i didnt mean as a cure for having no captions.

it was just a related general question about being deaf. since you can still feel. and music/sound and hearing is a reception of vibration. i just wondered how much that vibration would bring the music to you, even without a functional eardrum. (again, i dont know much about being deaf...i'm sure its not always the eardrum that is the cause. but no matter what bone and muscle carry vibrations)

Oh don't get me wrong. I love music. I play it all the time in my car -- If you sat in that when I did, you'd be as deaf as me! Cars are great places for that. The other trick is to hold a balloon, or a glass of water, but I prefer the vibrations going thru my body as well. At concerts, sitting next to the speakers is also pretty cool. Well, not that I've gone to any in quite a while, but you get the picture.

But really, I'm not going to get words out of that. I get a microscopic subsurface massage, but not the words ;-) And this clip is all about the message, not the sound.

Oh. I haven't posted there in a while (I really need to get back to it), but you can peruse http://blog.deafread.com/browneyedgirl65 -- I've got tons of articles up there.

i know that. sorry to confuse things by going off into the general, not the specific. i'm just curious about these things. and i dont have any friends who can answer. thank you for indulging me!

Los Anjalis transcribed the content of the speech in her most recent post.